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Show Sources of Headache. Headaches , are usually avoidable, ".for gluttony Is presumably unnecessary. The headaches of alcohol or from an evening In a smoke-laden atmosphere, are without with-out question due to an overfull condition of the blood vessels in the coverings of the brain a condition, maybe, at the bottom of many other headaches. That eye-strain causes headache Is now universally admitted; so do catarrhal conditions of the nose, adenoids in the throat, wax In the ear. ulcer on the tongue, and often decayed teeth. The nervous Individual, who has pains everywhere, every-where, very naturally has headaches. The headaches in women attributed to uterine and ovarian diseases have, like most other acres attributed to such cases, nothing whatever to do with the abdominal or-rans. or-rans. but result from general nervousness; nervous-ness; the attributing of various pains and iraladles in women to abnormal conditions condi-tions In the pelvic organs Is one of the Queerest of medical insanities; there is not an lota of proof that an inflamed or displaced pelvic organ is any more productive pro-ductive of nervousness or general neuralgias neu-ralgias than an inflamed or displaced sny- thMigraui a or sick headache, is a pecu- liar and .well-denned affliction, beginning t In early youth, often hereditary, occurring occur-ring with noticeable regularity, accompanied accom-panied by vomiting and sometimes disturbances dis-turbances of sight, hearing and swisa-tlcn; swisa-tlcn; it aifects chiefly . one side of th head, lasts one to three days, and ha well been likened to epilepsy; it is sto-tlmes sto-tlmes called bilious headache. thv- In no way related to dlaease of the s feft or liver; In fact; it te very much a s. nry outburst quite analogous to the ,-ior outburst called epilepsy; and thi jfre-. . ouency with which we And both c'.-T in different members of related famine cannot be explained by colncldenc.-0t Housekeeping.. . , - v ,- i |